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The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.
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| VarietyJoe LeydonThroughout most of the movie’s running time, Modine is tasked with the majority of the heavy lifting, and he handles the burden admirably. |
| The GuardianLeslie FelperinThe whole thing is really waxy and sad, like the immobile face of co-star Sylvester Stallone; although the chance to enjoy the always interesting, never-as-big-as-he-should-have-been Matthew Modine, still looking pretty fly with a shock of white-and-gold hair, is very welcome. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayA movie that very quickly becomes yet another story about people with guns chasing other people with guns, through featureless forests and abandoned buildings. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThere are laughs aplenty in the dialogue, which has several characters spout nonsensical lines — “You told me the title was clear.” |
| The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeTime moves so slowly one begins to fear it may turn backwards and return us to the far distant opening credits. |
| User ReviewpocahauntisIf Sly wasn't in this movie, it would have 1 star. If you're a fan of shoot-outs, that's basically all it is, coupled with bad acting and a story line that makes little linear sense. Yes, Stallone movies are mostly built on action and pizazz but the writing in this is just SO BAD. Entertaining, on a very small scale. |
| User Reviewjb1296Where to begin with Backtrace. Well, I will save you the time of reading this review, by saying that this film is terrible. Here is the reason why. I'll start with the director Brian A. Miller, he has previously directed films like Vice and The Prince, he is a director who makes action films, but makes the action scenes incoherent, Miller doesn't understand how to construct an action scene which is both entertaining and easy to follow at the same time, he seems to shake the camera excessively and thinks that makes the action more impactful. The acting is awful, there is not one performance which is truly that good in this film, the acting is wooden and stale but the reason for that is because the writing is that good either. The writing is terrible, there is no such thing as character development in this film, the characters don't grow or change in anyway and there is nothing interesting about them. Also, Sylvester Stallone is in this film and like Escape Plan II, he does very little, until the end of the film. Also, there are some obvious narrative twists, which you'll see from the beginning of the film. This film is dreadful and there are loads more reasons, but I think that I would max out the amount characters and need even more than to discuss every issue in this film. Like I said at the beginning, avoid this film, I watched it so you don't have too. |